13 · Rock Lady

371 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 8:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
371
LENGTH
8:12
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 33 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 181 BPM
13 · BAR 17
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

50 fills to learn, played 158 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 12, 15 and 152 more.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 181 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

46 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

371 bars across 29 sections: 160 keep time, 158 are fills, 11 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 171-200.

CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART CD
PART CK
PART CK
17 groovesHCKCDAMAR+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 13?

181 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 13 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

371 bars, about 8:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 120 exercises over 32 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 13?

50 fills to learn, played 158 times: bars 1, 2, 5, 6, 12, 15 and 152 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 371 BARS ANALYSED
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